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title: Wen him show de King wuh him bring, de King gree say Buh Rabbit head… — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Wen him show de King wuh him bring, de King gree say Buh Rabbit head er all dem wuh bin er cote him Darter, an eh gen um de gal, an dem bin hab er hebby weddin. Who acts: Wen. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 11, with 
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 11, sentence 41

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Wen him show de King wuh him bring, de King gree say Buh Rabbit head er all dem wuh bin er cote him Darter, an eh gen um de gal, an dem bin hab er hebby weddin.

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**Who acts:** Wen · **What happens:** show, bring, gree, say, cote · **To what, where:** de, Buh Rabbit head, arter · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Wen), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg76586:11:41
# text = Wen him show de King wuh him bring, de King gree say Buh Rabbit head er all dem wuh bin er cote him Darter, an eh gen um de gal, an dem bin hab er hebby weddin.
1	Wen	Wen	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	flat	_	_
3	show	show	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
5	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	8	discourse	_	_
7	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	de	de	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
12	gree	gree	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
13	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	ccomp	_	_
14	Buh	Buh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
15	Rabbit	rabbit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	er	er	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
18	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
19	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
20	wuh	wuh	INTJ	UH	_	21	discourse	_	_
21	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	appos	_	_
22	er	er	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	cote	cote	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	Darter	Darter	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
29	gen	gen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	um	um	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	_
31	de	de	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	gal	gal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
34	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
35	dem	dem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	bin	bin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	compound	_	_
37	hab	hab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	appos	_	_
38	er	er	X	GW	ExtPos=PROPN	37	appos	_	_
39	hebby	hebby	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	_
40	weddin	weddin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **show** | present | Wen | de |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent de=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **bring** | infinitive | wen |  |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **gree** | present | wen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | de King | tree rules |
| 4 | **say** *speech: assert* | infinitive | wen *not said here* | Buh Rabbit head |  |  |  | all dem *obj* | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent head=Theme dem=Manner |
| 5 | **cote** | infinitive | wen *not said here* | arter |  |  |  | Darter *obj* | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Project Gutenberg book 76586 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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